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FORMER EMPLOYEES OF EMERGENCY VEHICLE VENDORS
SENTENCED FOR CONSPIRING TO DEFRAUD EMPLOYERS
ON HOMELAND SECURITY CONTRACT

WASHINGTON — Two Florida homeland security vendor employees were
sentenced today for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and honest services fraud
by depriving their employers of money and the right of honest services, the
Department of Justice announced today.

Luis M. Candelario, a former sales representative for JPS Communications
Inc., was sentenced to serve 18 months in jail. Thomas E. Vander Luitgaren
(Vander), a former general manager of AK Specialty Vehicles LLC (AKSV), was
sentenced today to serve 18 months of home confinement except for employment
and four years probation. Candelario and Vander were ordered to pay jointly
$238, 371 in restitution to JPS and $11,050 in restitution to Advanced Vehicle
Systems LLC, a subcontractor of AKSV. Candelario and Vander were convicted of
the charges on Oct. 1, 2008, following a two-week trial.

Candelario and Vander originally were indicted on Dec. 5, 2007, in U. S.
District Court in Orlando, Fla., for participating in a kickback scheme with
Angel L. Rodriguez-Vasquez (Rodriguez-Vasquez), a former sales representative
for Fisher Scientific International LLC, to defraud their respective employers.
The kickback scheme involved federal emergency vehicle contracts with the U.S.
Virgin Islands government. According to the charges, the scheme began in September
2003 and continued through July 2005. Rodriguez-Vasquez pleaded guilty to
participating in the conspiracy in October 2007 and is awaiting sentencing.

“Today’s sentencing demonstrates that those who seek to enrich themselves
by engaging in kickback schemes designed to defraud their employers will be held
accountable,” said Scott D. Hammond, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the
Department’s Antitrust Division.

“American taxpayers deserve honesty from those who serve them,” General Services
Administration Inspector General Brian Miller said. “Contractors who defraud the
government will be punished.”

This ongoing investigation is being conducted by the Antitrust Division’s Atlanta
Field Office in conjunction with the General Services Administration’s Office of
Inspector General (New York Field Office) and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the
Middle District of Florida. Anyone with information concerning price fixing, bid
rigging or kickback schemes involving homeland security contracting in the Southeast
United States, Virgin Islands, or Puerto Rico should contact the Atlanta Field Office
of the Antitrust Division at 404-331-7100.